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the process of improving the material conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge and technology

What is a LDC?

Less Developed country

What are countries constantly trying to do with development?

Maintain and Achieve

What distinguishes a country's level of development?

Economic, Social, and Demographic conditions

What is HDI?

Human Development Index

Who created it and in what year?

The U.N. created it in 1990.

What does it recognize?

That a country's level of development is a function of economic, social, and demographic factors

What goes into the calculation of HDI? Who has the highest, lowest HDI's?

The calculation depends on GDP per capita (from economic), literacy rate and amount of education (from social), and life expectancy (from demographic). Canada has the highest with .932. Sierre Leone has the lowest with .254.

What regions typically have the highest and the lowest HDI's?

Usually core regions have the highest HDI's. The highest reanking countries are generally in WEstern Europe, though Japan is one of the excpetions. Perifory regions have the lowest, mostly Sub-Sahara Africa.

What is uneven development?

The expanding differences between the wealthy and the poor regions in the world.

the division of the worls between more and less developed regions along the 30 N latitude.

What is less diverse than other regions in Anglo-American? What are some facts about it?

Language and religion
-95% of the people are Christian
-reativly successful
-turcuary is the main job group (entertainment largest in the world)
-largest consumers
-farming is very efficient
-some divercity problems

What is the language group that most people speak in the Western Europe region?

Indo-European

What conflicts have risen in Western Europe and affected it?

The two world wars.

Who has the richest market of the regions?

Western Europe

What has the euro done for the Western European Region?

potenially the world's largest and richest market.

What is one problem that Western Europe has to overcome?

Migration from less developed countries

What has also cause conflict in the Western Eurpean region?

Religion: Catholic vs. Protestant

What is one thing that Weatern Europe has to import?

Food

What is the main problem with Eastern Europe?

It is the only region where the HDI has dramatically dropped

What is Eastern Europe healing from? What are some problems created by this?